11/30/2025
The truth is none of these things are “good” for a child’s neurological growth and development 🧠⚠️
Too much screen time 📱 or a small fall off the monkey bars? 🐒
Screen time is one of the most common triggers dysregulating a child’s sleep 😴 and hormones 🧪, which then creates a negative cycle of internal stress
Missing a nap 😴 or being carried in a car seat for hours? 🚗👶
A car seat for hours where the neck is flexed forward constantly puts strain on the brainstem 🧠💥. Then add flexed hips + pressure on the sacrum in the pelvis… that’s massive mechanical tension in two vital areas 🚨
Eating candy every day 🍭🍬 or backpack heavier than 15% of their body weight? 🎒
Too much sugar is just never a good thing 😵. It wrecks immune function 🛡️, gut health 🦠, detox system, hormones, memory, learning… the list goes on. A heavy backpack is okay once in a while if worn correctly 👌
C-section or birth with forceps/vacuum? 👶🔧
A C-section uses ~60 lbs of force on average on a newborn’s upper neck 😱. Forceps & vacuum? Even more aggressive. Pulling + twisting = instant neurological stress + cranial distortion 🌀
iPad all day 📱🤳 or learning to walk and falling 100 times? 🏃♂️💥
Tech-neck all day = constant brainstem tension 😖. Falling while learning to walk? That’s what the nervous system was literally designed for 💪
Antibiotics 💊 or spending half the day in crooked ‘W-sitting’? 🧘♂️
W-sitting twists the hips, torques the pelvis, and stresses the entire lower spine → direct nervous system interference ⚡
Antibiotics wreck the gut (especially under age 2) and are now linked to long-term issues with brain development, immunity, and metabolism 🛑
Which one surprised you the most? 👇
